Jeremy Bent

Author: Jeremy

  • 30 Years Old

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    I turned thirty a couple days ago. The celebration at McManus, where people I love sang to me multiple times, was in stark contrast to my first birthday in New York (age 23). I had just come back from Thanksgiving in Rhode Island, having spent three unsuccessful months in NYC. I felt like a failure…

  • Paying for Music

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    I had a long discussion with my friends Heather and Mike a month ago, sparked by these articles. If you don’t want to read them, they’re about how insane it is to steal music from artists you respect. Our discussion was about why I was still stealing. Up until a month ago, here were my…

  • Talkin’ ’bout Roleplaying, Y’all

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    I bought a pen and paper RPG this week for the first time since, well, frankly I can’t remember. But definitely since college, so at least 7 years. I’ve been following developments in RPGs since then, playing here and there, but I haven’t felt the need to buy one until I saw that they re-released…

  • “Diamond Head” Week on FYSR

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    After running into a number of fun covers of the Ventures’ instrumental “Diamond Head,” I decided to do a week dedicated to the song on Fuck Yeah Surf Rock. Each day I’ll be posting a new version of “Diamond Head,” starting with today’s post of the Ventures performing the original track. Diamond Head, in addition…

  • Where you can find me on the Internet, other than here.

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    Hi all. It’s come to my attention that many of you still visit this website, and yet, you may not be aware of my other web projects. These projects are all updated more frequently than this blog, but I’m working on that as well. But why not take a moment for all of you who…

  • Honky Tonk Badonkadonk: A Cultural Train Wreck

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    I’ve been listening to a lot of good/bad music recently for my blog, Good Songs Bad Lyrics. On GSBL, I comment on songs from the last 50 years that are lyrically sloppy or weak, or videos that are notably ridiculous. I’m always hunting for “Worst Lyrics of All Time!” lists, and seeing what people have…

  • Four Years Strong

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    9/11 will always have an undeniable significance in New York, but it also happens to be my NYC anniversary. In 2005 on September 11th, I took a Dominican shuttle bus from Providence to New York with a bunch of suitcases, my bass guitar, and next to no prospects. It was, as plans go, a terrible…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sony PlayStation 3

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    My current gaming rig and beloved black monolith. I got mine through a friend for wholesale, tax-free, so I did ok in regards to the insanely high pricing for the PS3. System: I was looking to upgrade to the PS3 as soon as I saw two things – Rock Band and Final Fantasy XIII. That…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Microsoft XBox

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    I have no idea what possesses me to buy these freaking things, but I bought this, I think, in the winter of ’02. I suspect there was a sale. System: Microsoft’s first real entry into the console world was pretty good. The controller pictured was not the one I had. I had the smaller, more…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sony PlayStation 2

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    I saved for a while, adding $20 bill to my little stash each week to eventually buy a used PlayStation 2. I owned this from like 2002-03 and then again from 2006-08. System: I had one of the original PlayStation 2s, which means in 2007 it stopped working consistently due to many of its plastic…